A strategic guide for effective state budget advocacy—detailing how to influence line‑item appropriations, coordinate with legislative champions, and shape the fiscal narrative to secure local food system investments.
Practical guidance for engaging legislators—such as building relationships, submitting impactful testimony, and navigating the legislative process—to effectively advocate for local food system policy change.
A report on the state of the local food system in Massachusetts as part of the New England Feeding New England project, including strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and next steps to build a sustainable, resilient, and equitable food system.
A tool to help you make meaningful changes that affect your work and your community. Using these tools, you and your allies can contribute to creating policy that helps the food system thrive.
A searchable data set of many federal, state and private programs and information that support, or may support, farmers as they explore and implement solutions to climate change and enhanced food security.
Massachusetts has significantly more food production on parcels smaller than five acres than when agricultural land protection laws, regulations and policies were put in place. Changes to those policies are needed.
The impression that fruits and vegetables sold at farmers markets are more expensive than produce that has been grown elsewhere and shipped to grocery stores is often a myth.
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many challenges within the food supply chain, and illuminated the importance of a strong local food system to meet the needs of food producers and consumers not just during crises, but at all times.
Food hubs aggregate, distribute and market local and regional food. They act as an important connection between producers and consumers.
